Paraconsistent Physiology

Paraconsistent Physiology, sometimes also referred to as Nonduality or Transduality, is an ability granted by existing in a state of being that violates the rules of classical logic. Entities with this ability would hence instead operate under the rules of a non-classical logic, frequently a paraconsistent logic and/or many-valued logic. As such they are entities that would usually be viewed as paradoxical.

Typically, entities of such a nature have some property that is not true for them and, at the same time, not false for them. Instead, it might be both true and false, neither true nor false, or in a third logical state that isn’t true and false. For example: A rose with Paraconsistent Physiology could be both red and not red, neither red nor not red or the statement “the rose is red” could have the truth value “between” which the fiction has established to be a logical truth value that is neither true nor false.

This can be linked to the idea of dualities and hence also Nonduality. True and false are dualities, as is having and not having a property. In that way, being beyond such dualities would qualify as having Paraconsistent Physiology. More generally, existing outside of any duality where it’s logically necessary to participate in one or the other would qualify.

We furthermore distinguish between characters who display Paraconsistent Physiology regarding one particular property and regarding all of their properties. For example, a box that is simultaneously empty and contains a doll would be considered to be of the former type, as it only breaks classical logic in regard to one of its properties, namely its emptiness. Meanwhile, a character for which none of their properties is limited to the rules of classical logic would be considered of the latter type.

Paraconsistent Physiology can grant any number of abilities and effects for the users. As they are freed from the confines of classical logic, their interaction with the world can be fundamentally different from those of regular entities and the result of interactions may be unpredictable without knowledge of the rules by which the alternate logical system they obey works.

A frequently seen, but not necessarily present, effect is that users of this ability are immune to having the property which for them is in a state beyond classical logic changed to being just true or just false instead. E.g. a character who is neither “alive” nor “not alive” might have no interaction in their logic which would allow for that state to be changed to just “not alive”, meaning that they can’t be killed by conventional means. Another example could be that a character who is simultaneously “here” and “not here” (in a logically paradox sense) might not be possible to be constraint to just being “here”, making them immune to bindings. Overcoming such restrictions would require the use of advanced metaphysical powers, such as Causality Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Information Manipulation, Law Manipulation, or Mathematics Manipulation, and the powers would need to have appropriate feats of being able to accomplish such things.

As the way things with Paraconsistent Physiology interact is dictated by their own logic, none of these effects is set in stone, though. As a result, a fiction needs to explain how the interactions function for us to assume a particular outcome.

• Specific: Beings which exist beyond the confines of classical logic regarding one or several of their properties, but not all of them. This includes character nondual regarding one or more specific logical dual systems.
• General: Beings which exist beyond the confines of classical logic in general, in a fashion that they may occupy both the value “true and false” or “neither true nor false” regarding any of their properties. This includes characters existing in a nondual state regarding all logical dual systems within an entire level of reality in a way that makes them occupy both or neither state of the dualities in question.
• Plurality: Beings which exist beyond the confines of classical logic in general, in a fashion that they may occupy truth values other than “true”, “false”, “true and false” and “neither true nor false”. This includes characters existing in a nondual state regarding all logical dual systems within an entire level of reality in a way that makes them exist beyond the truth values of classical logic, instead operating on a many-valued logic system with at least five truth values. Such characters occupy a state where they are neither A, nor not A, nor both A and not A, nor neither A nor not A, instead existing in a state one can’t describe using simple combinations of A and not A.